V1.4.9 Connect Release Highlights

Connect Release Notes

V1.4.4 Release Highlights:

New & Fresh Look of the Application:

We have redesigned and improved the usability of the product with a fresh look. In this process of improvisation, we have come up with a better UI and have standardised the UI of the screens to display the maximum information possible on each screen.

Left Menu will now be constant and respective icons are highlighted, when navigated to respective tabs. On Mouse hover, menu with labels are displayed.

Following are the major updates of the release:

1. Document repository at one place with Sub Menus:

Sub Menus are implemented for Documents, which now takes you through the User Documents and Project PO Documents with fewer clicks.

Coming soon in the “Documents Sub menu”will be the Client/Vendor agreement Documents.

So, from now on browse through all the document repository from one place.

2. Documents – Approval Process:

Document approval process is implemented for the User documents and this is configurable setting for the document types from the Admin Settings.

Uploaded documents needs to be approved in case these settings are enabled for the respective documents types.

Admin Setting:

“Is Required” and “Verification Required” are the new columns added in “Document approvals” sections of Admin tab.

“Type” drop down isadded to differentiate the document types for different modules.

Documents:

Documents uploaded under the Document types marked with “Is Required” and “Verification Required” will need attachment to be uploaded as mandatory and document to be approved. Approve and Reject buttons are displayed for document types which have approval settings enabled.

Document “Created By” and “Updated By” will be displayed in Documents list and also in Edit document.

An Auto triggered mail will be sent to the document uploaded user, in case the uploaded document is rejected.

3. Projects:

Adding/removing activities to the existing projects will allow you to add/remove the activities for the respective User Projects.

A Confirmation pop up is displayed to the user on saving the Project activities, so with a click, the Project activities are applied to the respective User Projects.

4. Work queue:

I9 with selected Work Permit Type will be displayed in work queue for user documents.

User name in Work queue is displayed as link and navigates the User to User documents tab of edit user screen.

Clients/Vendors:

Contract type drop down is added to filter the Clients and Vendors. (Vendors are those with “Sub Contractor” Check box selected)

6. Contacts:

Removed place holder ‘Mr/Mrs’ in title field and Added title column in contacts grid.

7. Timesheets:

View user link is added in the timesheet grid and User Information slider isdisplayed with all user details.

And, small and not so small bug fixes.Consultant:

What’s New!

V1.4.4 Release Highlights:

New & Fresh Look of the Application:

We have redesigned and improved the usability of the product with a fresh look. In this process of improvisation, we have come up with a better UI and have standardised the UI of the screens to display the maximum information possible on each screen.

Left Menu will now be constant and respective icons are highlighted, when navigated to respective tabs. On Mouse hover, menu with labels are displayed.

Following are the major updates of the release:

Documents:

Sub-menuis implemented for the documents and user documents screenis displayed when selected the sub-menu.

User Documents

User Documents:

Documents and general forms are displayed in user documents tab.

V1.4.9 Connect Release Highlights:

Following are the updates for this release and changes done in different Modules.

1. Home Page:

1. Recent activities done by you will be displayed based on the modules you selected.2. Summary of the PO Documents will be displayed with different status and when we click on that count screen, you will be navigated to Workqueue-PO tab.

2. Users:

1. Added SSN field in User screen – visible only for staff.2. If Active users count is greater than 200, then users will be displayed as sets and for each set 200 users will be displayed.3. Implemented Documents request via email. You can request for the documents from the consultants by selecting ‘Request for Documents’ option in users action drop down and select the required document categories and send an email to the consultant.

3. Documents:

Admin Settings:‘Employee Verification Document’ template is added in Email templates and you will be able to create multiple templates using ‘Clone’ button.Documents:Send Employee Verification Document button will be displayed when you select any consultant user in users drop down and you will be able to send that document to the consultant and this option will be available from User documents tab in edit users screen.

4. Timesheets:

Admin Settings:‘Comments_mandatory_for _Submitting_TS’ as a config value will be displayed in the ‘Validation messages’ of Admin tab.

If Config value set to ‘Y’, then entering comments will be mandatory for submitting Timesheets else entering comments will not be mandatory.

5. Invoice:

Admin Settings:‘Send invoice to client’ as a config value will be displayed in the ‘Validation messages’ of Admin tab.

If Send invoice to Client Config value is set to ‘Y’, then Send to Client button will be displayed in invoice quick view else Send to Client button will not be displayed.

6. Task Management:

Notifications will be displayed to the responsible user and assigned users when the task is assigned to the users. Notification will be displayed to entire staff user when the placement is created in Vultus Recruit.

7. WorkQueue:

New tab Payroll will be displayed in Workqueue. If a user doesn’t have payroll pay setup or if payroll pay setup has ended, that information will be displayed in this tab.

8. Reports:

1. Implemented Timesheet hour’s report where hours for the staff users will also be reported.2. Timesheet hours report can be generated by selecting the status of the timesheet or by selecting the user type.3. Implemented fixed column and fixed headers in major reports.4. Implemented new report ‘Scheduling Reports Summary’ to know the number of users scheduled for each report.

9. Application Access restriction based on IP:

Controlled login access at the user level by specifying a range of allowed IP addresses for a user. When you define IP address restrictions for a user, login from any other IP address is denied.

And, small and not so small bug fixes.

Consultant:

Document:

Sub-menuis implemented for the documents and user documents screenis displayed when selected the sub-menu.